AN UNDESIRABLE. Private Harold Darn ley, a.raem-ber of'the Expeditionary EoreeB, was fined in default 35 days gaol, at Bath urst, on tlir-ee charges of stealing from local business places. Accused went in to a hotel and forcibly took t wo. bot tles from a barmaid, besides grabbing ja quantity of sausage meat in a butch er's shop, and slicking up a baker's cart and stealing two loaves from the driver. The police expressed suprise at such a man having been .accepted for service, as he had already served half-a-dozen sentences for various of fences.

HOW JUDAS BETRAYED EUROPE IN ITS HOUR OF NEED. The shadow of the' black hand of. treasoa has fallen, iipon Europe, .and \for a little while : lias changed the faec of the world. One man, ^ of no importance in himself; consumed with | the glittering vanities that gather round a | throne, has struck? a'ffoul blow in . the dark J which has stirred with grief the friends of j freedom' everywhere Ferdinand of Bulgaria', the little nation that the free -peoples of Europe loved and fought' for, has seized upon this dark hour in Eur ope's'history to betray the 'cause of human freedom, to imperil the future of his people, to turn his guns on those who set his nation free and made him king. It is the supreme act of human perfidy, for it strikes a blow not only at the Balkan States to which Bulgaria owes allegiance, but at' the whole of Europe, now threatened by | the dastard who controls the German armies, whose soldiers shoot English women as they lie^fainting on the ground, whose sailors dr...

TEAN SFORMING SUGikR INTO PROTEINS AND I^ATS. \ 'V,' By Dr. H. W. HILLYEE;. Two announcements which have come froi Germany recently in regard to food supply are of very great interest. ' They; are Wtfi' statements that it is possible to produce necessary foodstuffs in a very speedy fashion by factory methods. / The raw material is sugar, perhaps sugar :now going to waste, and no other organic •material. The activei agents are micro organisms which transform the sugar into pro teins in one ease and into fats in the other case. It is well known that for the growth of a yeast in a sugar solution the presence of cer tain salts is necessary, and also that nitrogen in some form is necessary. Usually this nitrogen is that cLerived from the natural juice to be fermented 01* that derived from • a decoction of Other1 yeast j that is, the nitro gen is present in some form of organic nitro gen. But now it is shown that if nitrogen is supplied in the form of sulphate of anT Jiionia, the developm...

BRIEF DECSISiOi^ Riches are straws that ticlcie^wofcVn. The man who pays as" he goes is a coming |raaa.' '• '■■■■ ^ \ ' / * ■ * » , A Pimento is a red pepper that has got-, ten into society. ; • „ ■ Any man can talk himself into trouble, but it takes.a lawyer to .talk.him out. • • • * The prevalence of mosquitoes may be dtie; to the tray' tie' girls' are lar^iig iiiia s®a0on;;

- % SENTIMENT. Half the world thinks the other half ha§, sentiment-...V That because. jjalf ,„|jhe£/ never: stopped . to consider .earefuli^il&amp;hi.' timent is. - Everybody onithe hither ;side'of the thing that is yo$r&amp;lt; sentiment about :'Bvt all-, people do,, not feel the same . way about things. Q^herefor^. there are as .many different, variations :'&amp;d permutations of ^sentiment as there-are things to think about and people to think about. them. If your sensory organs, are sympathetic to a certain kind of sentimen tal stimuli, you have one kind of sentiment,; ■ but if . not, you remainy unmoved.' . Half the, world merely- notes that the other .half is not; sentimenta? about the &amp;ame things in the same way, • and therefore concludes that the other half is not sentimental at all, but merely cold. callous,' and comatose. ■ —E.O.J.

THE LIBERAL-PROGRSSSI YES T b e clash th r« t was p oss i b] e b e t we en the Liberals'and Progressives at the next election has been settled I by mut ual agreement; Seats tnow held by Liberals will not be contested by Progressives, bat seats held by Lab ourites in the country, about seven teen, the Progressives will contest. This is the only possible arrangement' Liberals could permit, and should be successful. A number of country Labor seats are held very precarious ly indeed, aid uniesf? feelings in the Goptamundia electorate changes ma terially before nest election the Pre mier will have the fight of his life.

APPLIED TO FARM MACHIN ERY. There., is just as much. difference between tlie value of farm machines as there is between the worth of horses. In selecting a horse m uch depends on the "breed," and in buy ing a farm machine, the "make" is the most important thing to know. If it is a Massey-Harris British Built, you know the "pedigree" is right. Close on seventy . years of making of farm machines, as good as they.can be madegis your:protection ia ''baying-^'-Mas^y-Harris.. *_?. Good workmen, good material, good ser vice to farmers, good farm machines -—that is why Massey-Harris has grown from a coantry ; blacksmith shop in 1847, to the largest makers of farm machinery in the British Empire to-day. The best recom - mendatiou any farm machine can have, the strongest guarantee' that it will.give the purchaser satisfactory and economic service, is the fact that., it is Massey-Harris. Do you know that Massey-Harris. factories occu py nearly 200 a.rcs of floor space FSach a fact speaks volum...

~ W . FUNNY MOMENTS. W' 4 - ' ■" 'f -' ' ■ ''''■> . Mrs. J*ones kept a boarding-house. and one day young Johnson ca)me to her with several . complaints. She listened in sUer^eQ;^or,ji fe^r moments, but as the elo quent she l(it ■'**' "Don't I luurtv eyoryv'oftb of the tricks' of your trade V said Jofengon, with considerable heat. Do you think I have, lived in boarding houses fifteen years Ujjr .li'othi^f' "Well," replied Mrs. Jonea, icily, C(I should! not be at all surprised."

THE TURK AND KtJLTUR. The eager attempts in the German press to present the Turhrs as a nation of Oriental gentlemen anxious to open their doors to the entrance of Kultur, and ready to welcome the remodelling hand of Germany, have a fresh il lustration in a long article in the "Kolnisclie Zeitung." The writer points out that one of the most infallible proofs of national regeh- ! eration in Turkey is the insistence of the na tion on purifying their Osmanli language from Persian and Arabic elements. Like their Ger man masters, they are also '' purifying the streets" by insisting on the removal of English and French signboards arid business notices. Gratifying to the "Kolnische" writer is the magnanimity which permits German signboards, whilp those of the Western nations are being ruthlessly swept away. "Within the past few weeks these energetic regenerated Turks have eyon begun to clear away Greek signboards. We are told also that Turks are much flat tered by the attention which Germa...

FRENCH CAPTAIN. FOUGHT IN "WAR OF '70. Captain Arthur Constant Aueher is a French man. He has been an Australian resident | since 1880. Ten years prior to that date he | was a young lieutenant of the 84th Infantry | in Marshal MacMahon's Army of the Rhine, J which had proudly marched to meet the Prus sian hosts, led by von Moltke. Although over 40 years have elapsed since he heard the roar of the guns at the great battle of Worthy when, after 15 hours of the most desperate fighting, MaeMahon was de feated, Captain Aucher is still physically a fine type of a soldier—erect, vigilant, and high ly intelligent. Since the present titanic strug gle in Europe commenced, this veteran. French officer has been chafing to do something of practical value to the common cause, and he recently offered his services to the Defence De partment as a recruiter. "When President Loubet ruled the destinies of the French Republic, Captain Aueher, through M. Chayet, French Consul-General - in Sydney, receive...

—— --- : Over 2000 bags of wheat were loaded at the Ry'l&amp;tone station last ■ 'week. '• ■ A Coolah message states that sheep ; "are realising great prices in that dis triet, one pastoralist securing 31/5 in the paddock for a line of ci'ossbreds. , ^ * •* Several Norton Griffiths officials . have taken offices at Werris Creek, and are preparing to make a start ' with a cfosg.coiffttry railway. A petition-against the early clos ing of hotels has been received by Mr Black from about 400 - residents of■■ Narrabri. * ,=x= Mr A. Croft, one of the-most pro gressive farmers in the Gulgong dis trict, took sowe 4000 bags of wheat off his Bellambi property this year. * -v? % Mr A. K. Butter, secretarj* of the Trangie P.H., and A. Association, advises that there will be no Show at ■Trangie this year. .V : ■ * * * ; The net amount to the credit of /the Coonamble Pastures Protection -^Beard at the end of last year was £585 l9sl0d * * * Up&amp;lt;£o Saturday, 19th February, Geuri^ Railw...